[Fredslist] ODE TO OUR MISSING VOTING MACHINES

[Gideon Schein]

I miss them too.
On Nov 6, 2012 11:46 AM, "Susan Zinder" <sfzinder at aol.com> wrote:

> Gotham – I voted – have you?????
>
> So... This morning at 9:00 am I went and stood on one line to get inside
> the polling place, another to get to the election district and a third to
> scan in my ballot -- -  Took a half hour and was more chaotic than I had
> ever seen it (2 of the 4 ballot scanners for over 10 election districts
> were broken)
>
> I know I'm generally thought of as "liberal"  but when it comes to the
> subject of voting machines - - I'm not liberal, I'm not conservative, I'm
> downright reactionary!!!
>
> I MISS THE VOTING MACHINES!!!!!!  You went in to the polling place,
> the line at the election district was shorter - there were 2
> machines dedicated to the district -(not 4 scanners for 20 districts) - -
> Signed in at the election district (noticed that my original signature was
> legible and 25 years into legal practice my signature has just become
> illegible - -oiy I'm getting old!)
>
> Oh - - look – that dad just took his son into the booth with him.
>
> Then.... You walked into the voting booth - and booth it was not a
> table with metal on the sides to keep you from cheating on the exam, where
> there's no room to bring your child once their out of the sling or baby
> bjorn.  Heavy plastic curtains (oiy - they needed to be cleaned, but that
> only meant that they had seen a lot of voting over the years) You weren't
> filling in an SAT, PSAT or LSAT form - but you went into a booth with the
> candidates identified in front of you and next to levers, levers and more
> levers.
>
> You took the big lever and pulled it to the right - - grrrrr - - it
> said I"m now ready to accept your vote - - and you voted - - - you didn't
> fill in blank ovals, you didn't press out chads - - you pressed the levers
> down - - physical, click was the sound - then you looked - did I press
> the correct levers?   Did I do it right - - wait, let me read that
> proposal, wait - I know I end up voting down a party line but that guy is
> on both party lines, for him I'll be bipartisan (unpress one lever, press
> the other)
>
> Then check again - - did I do it right?  Hmmm.
>
> Oh, remember when I went into the voting booth with mom?  Fun mother  -
> daughter time.... OK, I'm taking too long here, want to leave time for my
> neighbors....
>
> Time to pull the lever at the bottom from the right to the left.  Such
> a big lever -  so satisfying!  And the sound - it tells me - YOU HAVE
> VOTED CITIZEN ZINDER!!!! YEA FOR YOU!!!
>
> Now… no sound, no acknowledgement, no receipt (at least when I scan my
> check in at the atm, they give me a picture of it) - - not really sure I
> should trust the guy who coded the scanner.
>
> But… I still voted, and hope for the best for the country. So…. No more
> YEAs for me - -  It should only be yea for the country!!!
>
> Susan
>
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